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Title: The Cat and The Mice
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: United Kingdom; Ancient Greece
Description: The background of the illustration was the interior of a house. On the left was a window with glazing bars and the right was a cabinet with hinged door and a hoop handle.A shelf with two level was in the center. A Mice was on the upper shelf, peeping down. A Cat was hung along the shelf by her hinder legs on a peg which stuck in the wall. Her head facing a table, which was extended from the bottom right to the center. To the right of the cat on the table, there were a butter knife, a plate and a lof of bread.
Image Creator: Charles Whittingham (Printer);(); Charles Whittingham (Printer); ()
Type: Text; Wood Engraving
Identifier: mta:27971
Language: eng
Parent Collection: E4 - Aesop's Fables. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1814); E4 - Aesop's Fables. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1814)
Image: mta_27971_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Houses; Mice; Domestic cat; Continental shelf; Imaginary wars and battles